Ah, of course. The model isn’t wrong, it’s the input that’s wrong. Yes, yes. Please give me investment money now.

Finally, T10

Ahhh gotcha

It’s a meme, I don’t think folks are meant to view this as something other than ironic.

You’re paying or seeing ads?

Not just the knowledge and time but the urgency too. It was an emergency.

My head canon is that this comic made people work harder on image recognition.

Web browsers don’t make money. It’s why only chrome basically exists and that’s a cost center to support Google’s Internet ad hegemony and they spend billions a year on it.

Yep. Well, I don’t necessarily agree it started exclusively for the ads, but they definitely wanted to create something that they control. Microsoft Edge and Opera switching to Chromium just means Google has more soft control on how the web operates. (Even saying “soft” there is pretty generous.) A majority of browsers are Chromium forms. Google can control how the web operates because of it.

But to your point though, thwarting ad blocking is a huge part of it now. The manifest V3 changes (which severely limited what sorts of ad blocking extensions could do) came the same year they listed ad blocking as a significant risk to their revenue in their shareholder statement. Which, I just wanna mention for folks who might not be keeping up with this as much, isn’t some sort of conspiratorial statement. It’s a public document because they’re a publicly traded company.

LibreOffice just doesn’t roll of the tongue like OoenOffice though. Which really sucks. I even catch myself saying it when I mean LibreOffice.

“one of the most evil people in history is dead” says the pedophile president.

I don’t wanna test it. I’ve heard of folks getting nasty grams from their ISP about it and having like X strikes before getting cut off. What VPN do you use? I’ve been curious to try one.

Not without risking your ISP cutting your Internet off. You need a VPN to mitigate that risk.

That’s true, but it’s also free.

You won’t get your Internet cut off because some copyright holder sends your ISP a complaint.

I’m a little confused why you view this as an issue because in the alternative, manually installing certificates instead of using Let’s Encrypt’s tool, you still wouldn’t own the root certificate.

froh42 has the standard left ball. Once we get an accurate measurement we’ll be able to compare other balls to it and go from there.

You don’t own the root certificate even when you aren’t using Let’s Encrypt, unless you self sign or want to become a certificate authority. Am I missing something? Is there some controversy about Let’s Encrypt I’m unaware of?

They aren’t. I’m sure if it went to court that lawyers would find a way to convince a jury otherwise, but we all know that’s bullshit. Booster packs are gambling.

Why expose yourself to legal risk by torrenting media (which involves uploading which is distributing) when you can find sites that stream it for you? Just go to Yandex and look up “blah stream” and you’ll find tons of sites streaming whatever you want.

I do this because I’ve tried to watch movies with online friends but every major streaming service I tried won’t let me share my screen and stream. They all break somehow. I’m not sure if it’s intentional or what, but it doesn’t matter.

Sure, but the user knowing how to fix something or not wasn’t the problem or related to anything you said. It’s that you said they seem pointless to you and went on to describe their exact point of existence.

To be very clear, I’m not trying to make an argument for or against Arch derivatives, I just thought it was funny that you said they’re pointless because you can customize them when people use them specifically because they don’t want to bother with doing those customizations themselves.

I would consider using Endeavor OS because I just want something that can do basic work once it’s installed (I use CachyOS which is also an Arch derivative, but it modifies core packages which is different from what you’re talking about). Manjaro has separate criticisms, I’m not saying it’s “good.” I’m just saying it shouldn’t be surprising that someone wants to use Arch and wants customization on a bleeding edge, rolling release, but wants a system that isn’t quite so minimal once they’re done installing.

(I should try to install Arch to a VM or something and use this archinstall script. Because if it works as well as everyone says then my opinion might be different.)